| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Lamentations 3: 65 Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, Thy curse unto them.
Lamentations 3: 66 Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
Lamentations 4: 1 How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed! The hallowed stones are poured out at the head of every street.
Lamentations 4: 2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Lamentations 4: 3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones; the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4: 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, and none breaketh it unto them.
Lamentations 4: 5 They that did feed on dainties are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 4: 6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands fell upon her.
Lamentations 4: 7 Her princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire;
Lamentations 4: 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets; their skin is shrivelled upon their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Lamentations 4: 9 They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: so sad."
This is what had happened to Lucien that very evening.
At nine o'clock he had gone out, as he did every evening, in his
brougham to go to the Hotel de Grandlieu. Using his saddle-horse and
cab in the morning only, like all young men, he had hired a brougham
for winter evenings, and had chosen a first-class carriage and
splendid horses from one of the best job-masters. For the last month
all had gone well with him; he had dined with the Grandlieus three
times; the Duke was delightful to him; his shares in the Omnibus
Company, sold for three hundred thousand francs, had paid off a third
more of the price of the land; Clotilde de Grandlieu, who dressed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: Dr. Wilkins. With a faint gesture of the hand, he indicated the
figure on the bed.
"Ve--ry sad. Ve--ry sad," murmured Dr. Wilkins. "Poor dear
lady. Always did far too much--far too much--against my advice.
I warned her. Her heart was far from strong. 'Take it easy,' I
said to her, 'Take--it--easy'. But no--her zeal for good works
was too great. Nature rebelled. Na--ture-- re--belled."
Dr. Bauerstein, I noticed, was watching the local doctor
narrowly. He still kept his eyes fixed on him as he spoke.
"The convulsions were of a peculiar violence, Dr. Wilkins. I am
sorry you were not here in time to witness them. They were
The Mysterious Affair at Styles |
